"Maybe the human animal has contributed nothing to the universe but kissing and comedy--but, by God, that's plenty." --Tom Robbins
Achenalysis
The following is interesting to an exceedingly small number of humans on this earth. Coincidentally, that also describes the number of people who read my blog. What are the odds that anyone who reads this will be interested in my statistical analysis of the 11/13/05 Achenblog?
Well, first of all, if you do not know Achenblog, you should go there now and forget Read-Think-Live. You should only come here after you've read whatever Joel has to say, because he is smarter and funnier and a better writer than I am.
Below is a simple analysis of the kaboodlers on the "Fabulator 5000 and Fast Food Farming" kit from November 13. There was no kit on November 14, so the comments went on for two days--a total of 306, which is more than normal for one day, but about average for two days. The number of different names commenting (counting "no name given" as one) was 67. Three of those (Achenfan, Tom Fan and Dreamer) definitely belong to a single individual. CowTown and MadCow are presumably the same person, but omnigood and omnigasm claim to be two different people. If out of 7 completely anonymous posts there are three people responsible (just a guess), that brings us back to 67, so that's a good number. Number of commenters with 2 or more comments: 38, number of commenters with 10 or more comments: 13. Average number of comments: 4.6. Average number of words per comment: 337. Achenbach: 6 comments, 237 words. (The original Achenpost was 839 words.)
| "Name" | number of posts | total number of words |
| mofan | 1 | 1 |
| ach | 1 | 4 |
| Charlton | 1 | 4 |
| drfan | 1 | 4 |
| "," | 1 | 1 |
| CowTownFan | 1 | 5 |
| Jimmy Page | 1 | 5 |
| omnifanfanfanfan | 1 | 5 |
| Billy Fish | 1 | 6 |
| Ellen Aim | 1 | 9 |
| hotrockette | 1 | 9 |
| l OO mis | 1 | 9 |
| parrotzmom | 1 | 20 |
| scumbunny | 1 | 12 |
| Sinclair | 1 | 13 |
| [^**?**^]/TD> | 1 | 16 |
| conehead | 1 | 17 |
| HP | 1 | 17 |
| markwa | 1 | 17 |
| AchenfanFan | 1 | 18 |
| sarafan | 1 | 19 |
| Conquistador | 1 | 43 |
| D. Lama BeWanna | 1 | 24 |
| anaonymousforgoodreason | 1 | 29 |
| kp | 1 | 30 |
| BovineTruth | 1 | 720 |
| omnigood | 1 | 55 |
| Golconda | 1 | 49 |
| MadCow | 1 | 72 |
| Dolphin Michael | 2 | 72 |
| orifice | 2 | 45 |
| newkidontheblog | 2 | 37 |
| camisole | 2 | 77 |
| melvin/a | 2 | 79 |
| Bobby Plant | 2 | 12 |
| Lady Jane | 2 | 355 |
| omnigasm | 2 | 163 |
| an american in siam... | 2 | 328 |
| Snarky Squirrel | 3 | 152 |
| yellojkt | 3 | 305 |
| Cat Keeper | 3 | 195 |
| Tom fan | 3 | 154 |
| Sara | 4 | 180 |
| slyness | 4 | 174 |
| LP | 4 | 132 |
| Achenbach | 6 | 237 |
| ot | 6 | 313 |
| LB | 6 | 156 |
| Achenfan | 6 | 168 |
| Curmudgeon | 6 | 933 |
| (no name) | 7 | 233 |
| Reader | 7 | 557 |
| bc | 7 | 699 |
| Dreamer | 8 | 588 |
| mo | 10 | 313 |
| pj | 10 | 621 |
| Bob S. | 10 | 824 |
| esskay | 11 | 1249 |
| dr | 12 | 1049 |
| Tim | 12 | 1360 |
| Bayou Self | 12 | 1424 |
| mostlylurking | 13 | 949 |
| Nani | 13 | 923 |
| kurosawaguy | 16 | 1028 |
| TBG | 18 | 1310 |
| Loomis | 19 | 3333 |
| CowTown | 20 | 588 |
| TOTAL | 306 | 22548 |
5 comments:
I find it fascinating, but then I am in the target demographic. I did something similar on another blog I read, the Comics Curmudgeon. I went through several months of posts to see what comics he talked most about.
When Josh (the Comics Curmudgeon) went on a honeymoon and left his blog unattended for 3 weeks he got over 1000 comments and someone with databse skills would periodically post lists of the most frequent commenters.
And no I really shouldn't have this much time on my hands.
Haha! That's cool, Karen. Made me realize I need to comment over there more frequently, too! I've been slacking.
CR,
I'm enough of a computer nerd that I can get the program to help me a lot; not enough that it would do it all for me. It took about a half hour to put the numbers together. And it was, as noted, a slow day on Achenblog.
[No pencil or paper was involved.]
Sara,
I just assumed you were scarce because jw was in Hong Kong--but that was before we all knew about your 3D Jeremy.
Haha! I think I've been scarce for longer than jw has been in Hong Kong. I'm so out of it that I didn't even know he had left until he was gone. (Did you see the comment he made awhile back about how he's uncomfortable with the thought of another Jeremy? He likes to think he's the only Jeremy in the world. Poor guy, trying to live in a one-Jeremy world all his life...hated to break the news to him.)
Your achenalysis is cool. Not quite sure how I feel about being third. Must have been a slow day at work. Did I really have that much to say? I'm going to have to check.
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